Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> writes:
> I've read lots of EXT2 and LVM src code and I think it turns out that
> there is a bug in both. Andreas has already given the fix for the
> ext2, a suggestion for LVM is below (sorry, no patch, I really know to
> little about all the block sizes and buffers of block devices).
Despite my limited knowledge of the src code for buffering and block
devices I have made an patch which fixes the LVM problem for me. I'm
not 100% sure it is correct and if it is the clean solution. Some
kernel god should therefore take a look on it. At least I have
running it here in my kernel.
--- linux-2.4.2/drivers/md/lvm.c.orig Wed Feb 28 18:27:40 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2/drivers/md/lvm.c Wed Feb 28 17:00:25 2001
@@ -376,6 +376,8 @@
static struct hd_struct lvm_hd_struct[MAX_LV];
static int lvm_blocksizes[MAX_LV] =
{0,};
+static int lvm_hardsizes[MAX_LV] =
+{0,};
static int lvm_size[MAX_LV] =
{0,};
static struct gendisk lvm_gendisk =
@@ -3035,11 +3037,12 @@
lvm_gendisk.part[i].start_sect = -1; /* avoid partition check */
lvm_size[i] = lvm_gendisk.part[i].nr_sects = 0;
lvm_blocksizes[i] = BLOCK_SIZE;
+ lvm_hardsizes[i] = BLOCK_SIZE;
}
blk_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_size;
blksize_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_blocksizes;
- hardsect_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_blocksizes;
+ hardsect_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_hardsizes;
return;
} /* lvm_gen_init() */
-
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